This installs build prerequisites such as build essential, almost all compilation requirements for kde4 (with the exception of qt4) and some recommended packages such as libssl-dev for https support. Further recommended and optional packages are listed below.

To compile kde from trunk (soon to be kde4.1) the latest Qt4.4 snapshot must be compiled from source. This is provided conveniently in the kde svn repository as qt-copy. Please read README.qt-copy for the necessary Qt options as well as currently known problems.